Green Level is an unincorporated community in southwestern Wake County, North Carolina, United States.
[2] Green Level was a resting spot for the stagecoach and also became a social and commercial hub for people who lived several miles out in the surrounding countryside.
[2] Green Level started growing after the Civil War and included a Baptist church, two grist and sawmills, a Masonic Lodge (founded in 1867), two schools, and seven stores by the early 1870s.
[2] Green Level continued to function as a commercial center through the early 20th century, important to the local bright-leaf tobacco farmers.
[1] This tobacco was a lucrative cash crop that grew especially well in Western Wake County because of its rich Triassic soils.
[2] Its National Register application form notes, "The district as a whole remains remarkably intact, retaining integrity of setting, location, design, materials, feeling, and association.